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A white Afrikaner, Willie Klopper, 51, was dragged naked from bed in Rustenburg, South Africa,tied to his car and torched. He died of 100% burn wounds in hospital. Only his cellphone and wallet were 'robbed'. Vote it up!

Neighbours found Willie Klopper, 51, burning brightly on the road: he got lose from his bonds and fled. Klopper's screams of "Kom help my (come and help me)" had the high-security townhouse complex' neighbours in this platinum-mining town rushing from their homes at 1 am.

The first one to reach the burning Klopper was Mrs Lizzelle Meyer, who said he was alive, begging for water, burning brightly, and struggling to speak. Neighbours rushed over with wet sheets to douse the flames, others called police and emergency services.

Since 1994, there have been an extraordinary number of white Afrikaners killed in South Africa through such inexplicable incidents of cruelty-driven violence. Often, the victims are told that 'all you white dogs must die', and similar language while they are being attacked by armed, mostly young black men. Often, Afrikaners also are kidnapped from their homes, driven to remote spots and executed. see

Crime experts say that Afrikaners -- only 3-million out of an overwhelmingly black population of 47-million -- are being killed out of all proportion to their presence in the country.

One of the world's top experts in genocide, Dr Gregory Stanton of the UN-linked organisation Genocide Watch, has warned that this is a 'secret genocide'; secret because it is carried out against a small minority and hidden inside 'ordinary crime'.

He has spoken up publicly in TV programmes about what he terms the 'growing genocide of Boer farmers' and warned that if the South African government did not provide Afrikaners with better security, and also stop the growing hate-speech targetting Afrikaners in the South African state-media, this genocide would eventually culminate in 'all-out genocide'. See his first public warning in 2002 here

Left: Sheepfarmer Johnny Cilliers in South Africa discovered his lawyer-dad tortured to death at his smallholding on February 16 2009. The dad, a lawyer who works at Cullinan law court, was hogtied, strangled, tortured and shot three times - in one of the many murders targetting white Afrikaners in South Africa since 1994.Vote it up!

To date, there have been 3,037 white Afrikaners killed on farms since 1994 in many tens of thousands of armed attacks by violent, armed gangs since 1994. These attacks on farm families and their workers is also causing a mass-exodus from the countryside -- where Afrikaners, always the mass-producers of the country's commercial farm products, have for centuries preferred to live and work.

For previous stories this year on the murder attacks targetting white Afrikaners, see here and here and also here

All you white dogs must die:

Often, Afrikaner victims of such attacks tell of vile racist language from their black attackers while they are being attacked, assaulted, raped, often tied up and then forced to watch their relatives being murdered. see

Particularly targetted are working-class Afrikaners in the capitol city of Pretoria, who often also live on subsistence smallholdings surrounding the city built by their Voortrekker-forefathers. They describe these murderous attacks by large gangs as 'warfare'.

Young Afrikaans families are leaving the country of their birth in the hundreds of thousands to escape this incredible violent crime epidemic. The country has the highest per capita murder rate in the world: its official police records for last year registered 50 murders and 45 culpible homicides per day.

Afrikaans newspaper journalist Alta Snyman, writing in Beeld today, said Mr Klopper had whispered to his neighbour Mrs Meyer, who was the first to reach the burning man, that two 'large black men' had broken into his house and set him alight.

No motive for such cruelty:

There seems to be no motive for this cruelty: police said only his cellphone and wallet are missing, all his other valuables inside the townhouse remained untouched. He asked for water, she said, but when she tried giving him some, he couldn't take the glass: the skin had peeled off his forearms and was draped across his finger tips. Another neighbour Mrs Theonilde de Klerk, said 'we put wet sheets across the uncle (Afrikaners traditionally refer to unrelated older people as 'aunts' or 'uncles', to douse the flames and cover his nudity.

Permission: Beeld newspaper. In another of the tens of thousands of horrific armed attacks against white farm families, a young South African veterinarian was shot dead in Limpopo province next to his nursing wife Marlise and baby Wouter. She was pistol-whipped after the couple was kidnapped with two friends from a farm near Selati wildlife reserve next to the Mozambiquan border. Dr Meyer is the 3,035th white farmer to be murdered in South Africa since 1994.Vote it up!

The car and garage were gutted and things inside kept exploding, the neighbours said. Firemen managed to stop the fire from spreading through the rest of the high-security residential area. Klopper was rushed by trauma helicopter to Milpark Hospital, where he died at 18:30 with 100% burn wounds, reports Beeld journalist Magdel Fourie.

Police captain Elsabe Augoustides said their investigation team found that the attackers had cut through aperimetre fence and the burglar barsto get into the townhouse from the rear. Neighbours said Klopper worked as a miner for a mining-contracting company, and was a 'quiet, retiring' man who did not have many visitors. He was in the process of divorcing his wife. seehttp://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2477499,00.html

South African government denies voting rights to 2-million citizens who were forced to work abroad

February 26 2009 – The appropriately named South African teacher Willem Richter, working abroad temporarily, has won his first leg of a law suit against his government, in which the Pretoria High court ruled that the government had to provide voting facilities to all expats. Now the Constitutional Court was asked to confirm the ruling on March 4 2009. Ex-president F W de Klerk has come out in strong support of the law suit.

The South African interim-government has appealed against the country's highest court 's ruling ordering it to provide voting facilities for all of the country's 2-million expats. The Constitutional Court still must ratify the ruling on March 4. see

To prevent these 2-million expat South Africans from voting – most blame the country’s crime epidemic on the ANC-regime, and thus aren’t likely to vote for the ANC -- caretaker president Kgalema Motlanthe has meanwhile already rushed through a formal announcement of the election date in parliament, setting it for April 22 - thus effectively preventing the expats from registering their votes in time. Once the election date was formally proclaimed, no new voters may be admitted to the registered with the Independent Electoral Commission, by law.

South Africans who were forced abroad by the South African race-based employment laws and the country's out-of-control crime epidemic, now find that their homeland has also turned its back on them permanently — or at least views them as second-class citizens, denied them voting rights while abroad.

Convicted criminals are allowed to voteUnder South African law, convicted criminals are allowed to vote but -- expatriates are denied this constitutional right. One of the largest opposition parties leader Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance, called it a bitter irony. “In most constitutional democracies, prisoners are not entitled to vote while nationals living abroad are. In South Africa, we have the opposite situation…” she said. The Afrikaner Freedom Front Plus party, who had obtained the High Court judgement on behalf of Willem Richter, an Afrikaner teacher working temporarily in the UK, today slammed Motlanthe's shock proclamation of the election date - accusing him of 'contempt of the Constitutional Court -- which still has to decide the isssue on March 4.'

Picture: strangely, the SA Youth Forum Abroad is arranging another protest march in Trafalguar Square on Mach 14 – while the Constitutional Court will rule on the Pretoria High Court order on March 4. The Democratic Alliance and Inkatha Freedom Party have also launched a seperate lawsuit in the Constitutional court which will be heard late in March. The Freedom Front party, which obtained the first Pretoria High Court order, has urged these parties to join their law suit on March 4 as well.

Contempt of court

"Motlanthle’s early proclamation could create confusion among the public and South Africans abroad who want to vote," Freedom Front spokesman dr Pieter Mulder said in South Africa.>%20Social">>%20Social">see

The ANC-government's Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has meanwhile launched an appeal against the Pretoria High Court ruling, claiming that it had contained 'mistakes'. She told the state-owned SA broadcasting corporation's radio station that the acting-cabinet was opposed to supplying polling stations abroad for expatriate South Africans. The caretaker-government claims that it would be 'too cumbersome a procedure' for which they did not have enough staffers.

The BBC news agency in the United Kingdom reports meanwhile that some 2-milion South Africans now live and work abroad - some 600,000 of whom live in the UK. The opposition Afrikaner Freedom Front Plus party had brought this original case on behalf of Willem Richter, a South African school teacher living in the UK.

The SABC quotes Mrs Mapisa-Nqakula as saying that the ruling "disqualified certain classes of absent citizens from voting - and was therefore discriminatory." It's not entirely clear who she might be referring to: she didn't elaborate. However the Pretoria High Court ruling was very clear in its judgment: it said that 'all South Africans abroad must be given voting facilities abroad'.

Picture: Thousands of expats marched for their voting rights in London last year and will do so again on March 14 this year. The BBC says there are at least 600,000 expats in the UK alone – and 2-million South Africans now are working and living abroad after fleeing the horrendous violent-crime rate and job limitations due to the black-economic empowerment laws, barring most jobs to whites.

Expat South Africans will hear on March 4 2009 whether the constitutional court agrees with the earlier Pretoria High Court ruling that the current electoral laws are unconstitutional by disallowing expats working abroad not to vote at foreign embassies. Vote the picture up!

If Constitutional Court confirms the Pretoria High Court ruling, the election date would probably have to be changed from April 22 to a later date, to allow all the expat South Africans to register for voting at foreign embassies and allow the government to increase its staffing contingent for this purpose.

The African National Congress last year had split straight down the middle, with leader Jacob Zuma now having to face down Methodist bishop Mvume Dandala - the candidate from the breakaway Congress of the People (Cope) in the forthcoming election.

If two-million expats now are also granted voting rights, as is hoped, it could change the current deadlock between the ANC and COPE considerably, experts say: the vast majority of the expats are Afrikaans-speakers who had to flee abroad to find work because they were banned under South Africa's complicated 'proportional representative employment laws". Under this law, only a very small percentage of whites are allowed to work in any given profession, depending on their total representation in the country's racial makeup. They aren’t very likely to vote for the ANC.

The news that a 13-year-old South African girl sold nude photographs of herself at $17 each via the instant messaging service MXit, had local police rush out an awareness campaign about its dangers. Teens are often recruited like this by sex-slavery gangs…

The South african MXit messaging service has 12-million users. And, said the girl, many of her female friends were doing the same thing.

South African police inspector Ryno Louw of the Unit for Organised Crime said the girl had run a very real risk of falling prey to a sex-slavery syndicate. He said dozens of teens have already disappeared in South Africa after arranging meetings via MXit - but was unable to provide an exact number.

Sex-slavery syndicates:

For young teens, South Africa has become one of the most dangerous places on earth. The children need to be guarded night and day: for they not only face being gang raped by the notorious 'jackrolling' armed rape-gangs the country has become infamous for, see , and see . South Africa, with its modern shipping infrastructure and banking system, also has over this past decade, become an important hub in the murky, international sex-slavery trade, run mainly by Nigerian crime-gangs from greater Johannesburg. Recently several Nigerian sex-slavery gangs were arrested and the proceeds of their criminal activities confiscated in The Netherlands, which has decided to crack down hard on such activities in the red-light prostitution district in Amsterdam. About a dozen girls were released from sexual bondage during this raid alone.

Does MXit give information to criminals?

Louw said that the girl had never told her buyer about her location: yet the buyer, a man from Johannesburg, told her she was in KwaZulu-Natal province.

And in turn, that's only possible if you have contacts in the cellphone industry, Louw warned. The South African police has tangled with MXit before, accusing it of cooperating with criminal gangs. They are denying it vehemently. See

After the man had paid her $17 per photograph, he wanted to make arrangements to meet her, Louw said. Her mother was alert however: she apparently saw the little girl trying to surreptitiously erace messages from her cellphone and then found out what was going on. The mother contacted the police.

Coerced into producing pornLouw said it sounds as if it had been going on for a while. The girl knew she was communicating with an adult from Johannesburg, but he coerced her into producing pornography somehow.

The police warn parents to ensure that their children are not communicating with strangers on the popular South African social networking service.

MXit vehemently denies that it ever helps criminals, on the contrary, 'MXit has helped authorities track down criminals on several occasions. The amount of enquiries we get from criminals is nothing compared to the number of users we have,” they said.

"We accept our users’ registration information in good faith and would not know if someone was a criminal. And even if we did, obviously we would report them to the police immediately and certainly not give them any user information.

"By law, we are not at liberty to divulge any personal/user information. If we did, we would be in contravention of the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 (“PAIA”) of 2000." They said they were 'committed to ensuring the safety of their 12 million users, but technological advances shouldn't be blamed for incidents like this.'

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February 24 2009 - Anti-jihadist Dutch MP Geert Wilders, barred from the UK, arrived in the United States on Monday, and appeared on Fox News twice; first as a guest on the Glenn Beck show and then on The O'Reilly Factor talk show. Wilders told them that Europe needs a First Amendment, to guarantee the right to free speech.

He is in the US for a speaking tour and to show his movie, Fitna. Republican Whip, Senator Jon Kyl of Iowa, picture left, invited Wilders to show his anti-jihadist film in the US Senate chambers in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

Dutch politicians are usually considered rather dull by foreign journalists, and they normally don’t get much attention outside their own country. Never has a Dutch politician received this much international attention before Wilders hit the headlines with his movie Fitna.

Two Dutch politicians under a Fatwa

A former Dutch parliamentarian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, was also forced to flee to the United States after a Fatwa, an order to kill the anti-jihadist Somalian refugee, was issued against her. A note to this effect had been attached with a knife to the slain body of Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh, murdered in the streets of Amsterdam by a Moroccan-born man, Mohammed Bouyeri. Hirsi Ali had written the script for Van Gogh’s anti-jihadist movie Fitna. She now works for a think-tank in Washington, DC and undertakes speaking engagements. She, too, is under constant guard. Hirsi Ali and Wilders both were MPs for the liberal Dutch party VVD, and both clashed with its leadership over their open opposition to Islam and the Q’uran. It’s not known if Wilders and Hirsi Ali will meet during his week-long tour in the US – which is also conducted as a fund-raiser because he is facing a criminal court trial in Amsterdam for expressing his views in public.

Wilders also was in Rome last week, where he received the Oriana Fallaci Free Speech award and showed his film Fitna in front of a large audience. When he wanted to go to buy a pair of shoes, he was accompanied by a large number of photographers. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267560

Wilders was protected by Dutch security officers: he has been under constant guard ever since a "Fatwa," -- an Islamic order that the faithful must kill him whenever they are able -- was issued against him. see http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/267560

He told interviewer Glenn Beck on Fox TV on Monday that, contrary to the rude way he was treated in the United Kingdom, where he had been invited to speak in a chamber of the House of Lords by two Peers, he and his guards were received very courteously by US immigration officers.

And just an hour later he was on the O'Riley Factor show, at the same TV station. O’Riley told Wilders he disagreed with the UK’s opinion to bar from the country. A large number of segments from Fitna also were shown during the interview.

According to Wilders’ website, many millions of people worldwide have viewed and downloaded Fitna ever since his barring from the United Kingdom hit the headlines.

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Picture: Afrikaners have become so disenfranchised in the country of their birth, that they have now joined UNPO - the UN-linked organisation which fights for the rights of unrepresented Peoples and Nations. And last December, 2,000 Afrikaans schoolchildren lay down on a Kameeldrift, Pretoria rugby field with white crosses, and told the news media that they were too scared to leave home any longer. Each of these children had been targetted by criminals inside their homes.

February 22 2009 -- The Institute for Race Relations reports that there's hundreds of thousands of young whites missing in South Africa. Newsweek also reports on the mass exodus of white, skilled families, asking: 'why are the brightest leaving this most successful state?" The South African Institute for Race Relations says this week that the young white men -- aged 24 to 34 have mostly left the country now, and that there now are many more older white men than younger ones - when the reverse is the case in normal societies without wars.

There are two main reasons for this demographic oddity: the relentless murder campaign waged by heavily-armed, well organised black male gangs against white farmers: the latest murder toll is 3,038; together with the mass exodus of white, working-age families from South Africa ever since 1994 -- and which Digital Journal has also often reported about just recently. here and: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262718

Newsweek article This week's Newsweek http://www.newsweek.com/id/184783 feature article by Scott Johnson , headlined "Fleeing from South Africa,' asks: ' Fourteen years after apartheid, why are the best and the brightest leaving Africa's most successful state?"

He writes: "The South African government doesn't keep reliable emigration statistics. But even as the global financial crisis has caused emigration from most other countries to slow, a number of recent independent studies show that mass departures from South Africa are ongoing and are sapping the nation of its skilled and best-educated young citizens.

"The most dramatic figures can be found among South African whites, who are leaving at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict," according to a report by the South African Institute on Race Relations," he writes.

Destruction of an entire ethnic minority:

PICTURE: December 16 2008, Afrikaner families showed up in their tens of thousands at the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria to vote with their feet against ANC rule which allows genocidal attacks against their kin. Dr Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch says the Afrikaners are targetted for genocide. video on http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263898

What Newsweek doesn't say however, is that more than 90% of all those 'whites' who have left, are actually Afrikaans-speakers, close-knit, often deeply religious members of a very distinct ethnic minority who view themselves as an independent nation, with their own language, culture and a very unique history.

This exodus of 'whites' thus also marks the dissipation, the destruction of an entire ethnic minority in South Africa which has lived there since the 17th century. The young generation of Afrikaners is being forced out of the country of their birth, and not only face the heartbreak of leaving their beloved continent behind them forever, but also having to leave their aging parents behind.

Newsweek continues:"Some 800,000 out of a total white population of 4 million have left since 1995, by one count," he reports, adding: : "...this wasn't supposed to happen.. but (emigration) has been accentuated by a violent crime epidemic, serious political upheaval and economic globalization. A poll conducted last May among 600 people of different races, ages and genders (in South Africa) found that 20 percent were leaving the country'.

Crime, murders, rapes: Picture: Sheepfarmer Johnny Cilliers in South Africa discovered his lawyer-dad tortured to death at his smallholding on February 16 2009. The dad, a lawyer who works at Cullinan law court, was hogtied, strangled, tortured and shot three times - in one of the many murders targetting white Afrikaners in South Africa since 1994.http://www.saps.gov.za/statistics/reports/crimestats/2008/crime_stats_2008.htm

"The primary driver for emigration among all groups, but especially whites (...) is fear of crime. With more than 50 killings a day, South Africa has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world." For the South African police statistics, which alas are not maintained very well, see

Rape in South Africa as if it's a conflict zoneHe continues: "The same goes for rape—ranking the country alongside conflict zones such as Sierra Leone, Colombia and Afghanistan. Future Fact polling indicates that more than 95 percent of those eager to leave South Africa rate violent crime as the single most important factor affecting their thinking. (see our previous reports on the rape epidemic in South Africa here and here) "Lynette Chen, the ethnic-Chinese CEO of Nepad Business Group, is the only member of her family left in South Africa. Her parents departed in 2002 after being carjacked—twice. Her brother, also a victim of crime, followed suit shortly thereafter. "They're always getting homesick," she says. "But they won't come back unless the crime is reduced."

White farmers attacked:"Another largely unnoticed problem is the growing number of attacks on South Africa's white farmers. As in neighbouring Zimbabwe, some ... appear to be racially motivated. The result is that white farmers' numbers continue to decrease...' (see our previous report here) http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/265201

"Then there's the problem of affirmative action, which many whites feel limits their opportunities for advancement and which keeps many émigrés from returning. "You can attract people home, but there are still the same concerns when they get here," Chen says. "Crime and lack of job opportunities if you're not the right color." see http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/262718

The SAIRR spokesman Frans Cronjé this week slammed the Newsweek article as it was 'putting South African in a poor light', especially over its comment that 'white South Africans leave the country at a pace consistent with the advent of "widespread disease, mass natural disasters or large-scale civil conflict."

However, he also felt that the Newsweek article raised a very important issue, and ‘that it created awareness of the fact that so many white well-educated citizens have left the country.'

"The article shows the seriousness of the brain drain - and that the underlying causes must be urgently addressed,' Cronjé said.

Especially Afrikaner whites are increasingly leaving the country of their birth. The New Zealand and Australian embassies frequently hold emigration seminars, which are always overcrowded. On this picture, left, an illustration of the lack of any rights Afrikaners now have, when even the cities they have founded are undergoing a massive ethnic-cleansing name change programme in effort to wipe the very existence of the Afrikaners off the map of South Africa. This small protest group still tried to protect peacefully recently at the magnificent group of statues of their beloved Paul Kruger, the last president of the Boer Republic, in downtown Pretoria. There’s already a huge number of half-destroyed statues of Afrikaner leaders to be found in Orania, the tiny Afrikaner enclave in the desert of the Northern Cape.

Most “young white South Africans” have left the country:

Cronje also confirmed that most of the country's white South Africans aged between 24 to 40 have already left the country - some 750,000 -- since 1994. An entire generation of whites basically have now left the country, and there indeed are many more older white men, aged above 60 years, than young ones left in the country.

And now, a second wave of young emigrants is also beginning to leave, he said: young coloured and Indian families; together with the recent graduates among the black middle-class, are also departing.

However managing director Martine Schaffer of the Homecoming Revolution - launched by a South African banking group to try and lure all its best-paying customers, taxpayers and former homeowners – the ones who generated all the jobs -- back to the country, slammed the report as 'last year's old news', describing it as sensationalised, inaccurate.."

Although her organisation does not maintain any registers to back up her claims as far as I am aware, she says there is no real brain-drain. There was merely a brief exodus from South Africa after the election of Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC, the widespread murders and xenophobic attacks on ‘foreigners’, and Zimbabwe's economic crisis, ' she told the Afrikaans weekly Rapport today.

Another white South African farm dweller has found been murdered, bringing the death rate for whites, mostly Afrikaans-speakers on the country’s commercial farms and smallholdings, to 3,037 since apartheid ended in 1994.

Sheep farmer Johnnie Cilliers, right, who works and lives on a smallholding in the Bronkhorstspruit district north of Pretoria with his lawyer dad Doppie, 66, was deeply traumatised by finding his dad tortured and murdered.The father and son live in homes on the same agricultural smallholding near Bronkhorstspruit. His father worked at the Cullinan law courts.

Son Johnny burst into tears as he related to Afrikaans journalist Virginia Keppler of the Beeld daily how he had first 'run up and down like a madman' when he found his tied up dad lying tied up just inside the front door in a blood-smeared hallway at 8am. He was there to take his father to the nearby law courts in Cullinan because his dad had lent his own vehicle to his sister. When Johnnie arrived at the house at 8am, the front door was shut closed but unlocked. He called out to his father, pushing open the front door, and found his father had been murdered in a very cruel way.His hands and feet were hogtied together, he had been strangled and he had also been shot in the upper body. The grief-stricken sheep farmer said he and his ad had been close, and often went horse riding together."We've never had any incidents on the smallholding in the past seven years," he said.A long-time colleague of the dead lawyer, Johan Paulsen, 42, said the staff at the Cullinan court are like one big family, and everyone has been plunged into diep grief and shock over the horrific death of a much-loved colleague. According to investigating police, the dead man's cellphone, a hunting rifle and a handgun were missing. No other valuables were touched inside the homestead. Trackers tried to follow the muddy footprints of several men but no-one has thus far been arrested. A police helicopter photographed the smallholding.http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2471022,00.html

Police good enough to protect countryside says Terror LekothaMeanwhile the country’s rapidly-shrinking number of commercial farmers’ ongoing demands that the old rural commando system must be reinstated to protect the farms with local defence force volunteers who know the area, the ANC’s breakaway faction leader Terror Lekota said he did ‘not support the idea’. The police should protect the borders and the countryside, he said, not the military. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2471567,00.html

In another farm attack that day in the Free State, a young Afrikaans farm couple was attacked in the Koppies district in the Free State province. The wife Helene Potgieter was beaten up and one attacker threatened to 'give her AIDS'. Her husband Manie was assaulted over the head with a crow bar and required stitches at the hospital afterwards after they were attacked inside their fenced homestead at 4am in February 15. The couple said they were lucky: Helene was not raped, and they both survived the ordeal. Afrikaans journalist Tom de Wet writes in the Afrikaans daily Volksblad that four men had broken down the security door of the homestead to get in - and when Mr Potgieter walked into the hallway to confront them, he was attacked.

He rushed back into the bedroom and he and his wife tried to push the door closed, but the four attackers managed to open it slightly - and fired a shot into the room and pushed their way in. Potgieter was tied up and a gun was held to his head while Mrs Potgieter was dragged throughout the house while the attackers looked for valuables. One man kept saying to her: "Do you want AIDS, I will give you AIDS...' she said. The couple never keep cash in the house, but the $15 in their wallets were taken - and the attackers, oddly enough, also took their training shoes, cellphones, some tools, a camera, Mrs Potgieter said. Many other easy to carry valuables inside the homestead remained untouched - which often is a feature of South African farm attacks: crime researcher Johan Burger of the Institute of Security Studies says the main motive for carrying out these attacks against Afrikaner whites is revenge, terror and murder, not greed. When the farm workers showed up at the Potgieter homestead at 4:30 am to milk the cows, the gang fled – which probably saved their lives, they believe. It was found that their telephone wire to the homestead was cut - so the injured Mr Potgieter first had to repair them before he could alert his neighbours Louis Boshoff and Louw Engelbrecht. The farmers formed an impromptu tracking team which followed the men's tracks to the tarred highway about 1km away from the homestead, where tyre tracks showed that they had been picked up by a car.Police sergeant Phumzile Makaula said no-one has been arrested here, either.http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2470892,00.html

20090123 David Greig, 65, Killed, Hartzenbergfontein farm, Walkerville Farmer killed in exactly same spot in the kitchen as mom was in 1996…

WALKERVILLE, Vaal triangle. Afrikaans journalist Sonja van Buul of Beeld reports that David Greig, a 65-year-old livestock farmer from Hartzenbergfontein, was killed in the family kitchen - exactly where his mother Hannah was shot dead in 1996. This is the 3,034 th South African farmer to be murdered in South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2459970,00.html

Greig and wife Jeanette, 64, were awakened in their bedroom on Friday evening by an armed man who had broken into the homestead."The armed man forced my mother-in-law to open the kitchen door for his two accomplices, who were waiting outside," said Tom Hendriks, their son-in-law on Tuesday. Hendriks said Greig was walking behind his wife and the man to the kitchen. "My mother-in-law couldn't find the keys. Then my parents-in-law wrestled with the man to get the gun." Hendriks said his father-in-law died on the kitchen floor after being shot once in the head and twice in the chest. Jeanette Greig was badly assaulted and stabbed with a knife. She has lost her hearing permanently because her eardrums burst during the beating."My father-in-law's mother, Hannah Greig, was shot and killed by robbers in exactly the same spot in 1996. It's so ironic," Hendriks said. The late Hannah Greig's attackers, a gang of twelve armed men, were caught by the then still operative commando farm guard units, and are currently still serving a combined 175 years in prison. The Greig family has lived in the Walkerville area for the past 18 years. They are all badly traumatised by this latest farm attack. http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2459983,00.html

20090122 86-year-old smallholder attacked, PotchefstroomJan 23 2009, Potchefstroom. In the second attack within two days, an unnamed 86-year-old Afrikaner woman was tied up and defenceless yesterday for 14 hours in her bathroom on a smallholding in Potchefstroom. She was found dehydrated, covered in bruises and knife cuts when she was finally discovered, said ER24 emergency service spokesman Werner Vermaak. Police inspector Wilmarie van der Merwe said the woman's name cannot be provided as yet. She was attacked inside her bedroom at 11pm at the Mooibank smallholdings, where many retired working-class Afrikaners live.The police inspector said that the old lady was attacked by two men with knives inside her bedroom. She was stabbed with knives, beaten up and tied up. She still managed to flee to the bathroom however and locked herself in.http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2458127,00.html

20090121 Johan Meyer killed, smallholdings, Potchefstroom – nothing robbed The attack against the old lady occurred only 10km from the Mooivallei smallholdings where 56-year-old Johan Meyer was shot dead the night before in the kitchen of his rental home on January 21. His wife and a lady-friend came across his bloodied corpse when they woke up from the noise. Nothing was robbed at all. Meyer was a partner of a family business which installs close-circuit security cameras. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2458127,00.html

20090116 REV ALBERT VENTER KIDNAPPED FROM MARBLE HALL FARM

Rapport journalist Willem Pelser writes from Marble Hall that a massive search with a police helicopter and local farmers was launched to rescue local Dutch Reformed Church dominee Albert Venter from a large, armed farm-attack gang which had driven off with the dominee in a car-boot on Friday. Rev Venter was deeply grateful for the rapid police reaction which he says undoubtedly saved his life. He was enroute to the church office near the Dutch Reformed Church in Marble Hall when grabbed at gunpoint by five farm attackers at his gate. Four had handguns. They manhandled him roughly, even standing on his back while searching him for valuables. When he pleaded with them not to take his wedding ring, one put a revolver to his head, shouting for the dominee to shut up – he would not hesitate to kill him. He then was hogtied and dumped into the boot of Venter’s Volkswagen Polo Classic. They drove around with him at breakneck speed on a dirt road for a while before returning to his own farm house, where they tried to attack Mrs Venter at gunpoint. Or tried to – became the dominee’s wife managed to lock herself in the study while calling the police on her cellphone. The gang fled, with Venter still in the car-boot. They then stopped the car in the veld and fled on foot: the police helicopter arrived within five minutes and released the badly shaken dominee from the boot. Police say that one large farm-attack gang has been terrorising this region for at least a year. http://www.news24.com/Rapport/Suid-Afrika/0,,752-2460_2454871,00.html

Widowed macadamia-farmer of Nelspruit, Mrs Saar Holtzhauzen (64), who was found with her throat slashed inside her homestead on Sunday, January 11. This brings the total number of murdered white farmers in South Africa to 3,031 since 1994. We do not yet have a picture of her to publish. A 1y-year-old ‘youth’ was arrested on January 19.http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2455702,00.html

Looting clearly was not the motive; the key to her gun-safe was still in her hand; her cellphone was next to her when her body was discovered by neighbours. Her throat had been cut. A computer was missing. Her son Ben Holtzhauzen said his mom 'did not have an enemy in the world. She was gentle and caring. It's inhuman what has happened to her.' Police superintendent Gerrie Agenbach of Nelspruit said her body was discovered at around 1pm on her farm Rietfontein near Alkmaar, which is about 15km from Nelspruit. From marks on her face, it appeared as if she had also been hacked or sliced with a knife - possibly one of her own kitchen knives. Dave Fourie, manager of her security company J & M Sekuriteit, said she had been a client for a long time. They had received no panic-alerts from her. Mrs Holtzhausen was a widow, her husband Professor Kas Holtzhausen, a well-known agricultural expert and macadamia-farmer, died six months earlier. All the commercial farms in this region have been earmarked by the ANC-government for confiscation. The food-production from this region -- which supplied huge quantities of fresh produce and fruit to the Johannesburg market - has dropped by more than 60% since the confiscation programme started.http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2452222,00.html

20090201 Dr Paul Meyer, veterinarian, murdered in Gravelotte

Four Mozambiquan migrants appeared in the Phalaborwa magistrate's court on February 17, 2009, charged with the kidnapping/murder of Dr Paul Meyer of Gravellotte two weeks earlier. A fifth suspect was arrested in Mozambique and also expected to appear in a law court there for hijacking Meyer's car - there is no extradiction agreement between the two countries.

The unarmed Dr. Paul Meyer (38) was shot dead execution-style in front of his wife Marelise and babyson Wouter after they and their neighbours were kidnapped from their farm in the Selati wildlife reserve. Police superintendent Ronel Otto said police traced the five men after game-rangers came across a stolen Toyota Land Cruiser hidden in thick woods near the Kruger Wildlife reserve. Police established that the Land cruiser had been hijacked in Gauteng, and after further inquiries discovered the four men hiding in a squatter camp outside Phalaborwa. They had planned to take the Land cruiser to Mozambique for resale. The fifth man got into a gun fight with Mozambiquan police and was arrested there, among others for illegally imporing Meyer's double-cabbed farm vehicle. The Meyers, together with their little baby Wouter and their neighbours, Pierre and Sue Gallagher, were attacked while visiting in the Meyer homestead together. They were kidnapped and driven at breakneck speed in a nightmare 70km chase from Phalaborwa to the Mozambiquan border. They were dumped along the roadside just before the border and Dr Meyer was executed. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2471541,00.html

20090107 Suburb Pierre v Ryneveld, Pretoria terrorised by large gangs

"They just shoot without asking any questions…’

Journalist Graeme Hosken of the Pretoria News reports on January 17 2009 that ‘gangs of armed robbers have besieged a Pretoria suburb in a spate of attacks in which two people were shot, a domestic worker raped and dozens of Afrikaner home-owning families terrorised.

Marina Bosch, business owner, shot in leg

The five-day reign of terror in Pierre van Ryneveld which began on Monday continued on Friday when business owner and mother of two, Marina Bosch, was shot in the leg. Bosch was cashing up during the early hours of Friday morning when three gunmen stormed her home shooting her driver, Charles Smit, twice in the chest, critically injuring him before opening fire on her. The gang escaped with cash, cellphones and stock. Bosch's husband Christo, who managed to hide his children under blankets as the attackers rampaged through his house, said his family was terrified. "These guys shoot without asking any questions. They don't care whether you live or die," he said describing how his wife had pleaded with them not to shoot her. He said the gunmen had surprised them as the driver, Smit was leaving. "As he opened the door they opened fire. They just began shooting," he said, adding that Smit was in a critical condition in Steve Biko Hospital, while his wife was recovering in Unitas Hospital. He said the worst thing was the feeling of helplessness. "There is simply nothing you can do," said Bosch.

The attack on her Fury Street home came hours after a foiled attack on another woman in her home, and shortly after robbers stormed the home of Cynthia Uren, attacking and terrorising her and her children in a three-hour ordeal. The attack in Uren's security complex home ended when she leapt from her car as the four gunmen raced off with her and household appliances. "I was not going to let them take me. I was rather going to be shot than dragged off somewhere terrible and raped," she said.

Neels Kruger, attacked by large gang which fired at his fleeing children:

The gunmen are believed to have returned hours later to attack another homeowner in the same complex where they held him and his family up, robbing them of jewellery, money and cellphones. The gang, according to local community police forum members and police sources, is also believed to be responsible for the attack on Neels Kruger and his children during the early hours of Tuesday morning. ‘There is simply nothing you can do' The gunmen surprised Kruger's children as they were saying goodbye to friends. Neels Kruger, describing how his children fled for their lives as the gunmen chased after them, said what had happened was frightening. Recalling how the bullets narrowly missed hitting them, he said: "It is only by the grace of God that we are alive. These attacks happen so quickly and when you least expect them," he said. Police spokeswoman, Aveline Hardaker, said the police were determining whether the attacks were linked. Opening fire on Kruger's children when one of their friends spotted them, the gunmen chased their victims into their Spitfire Street home where they continued firing indiscriminately before fleeing empty-handed when the house alarm was sounded. Security guards who spotted the robbers fleeing along the R21 were forced to abandon their chase when the gunmen shot out their vehicle's tyres.

ATTACKED LIMPOPO FARMER GETS NO HELP FROM POLICE Farmers in the Leeuwkuil area just outside Pietersburg/Polokwane have been the victims of armed attackers four times this month - yet the police do not seem prepared to do anything about it. Only when one farmer had made a citizen’s arrest of six men loading his furniture into their bakkie, called the police and told them he’d blocked the access road to his farm, did the police respond, showing up with 17 police vehicles and a police helicopter…

Sagrys de Beer, attacked twice – wouldn’t take it any more…

According to Mr Sagrys de Beer, who farms with his father, the latest spate of crime started on 25 December last year when around 11 of their sheep were stolen. He said the farm’s perimeter fence as well as the kraal’s fence had been cut. There were also clear footprints in the area. "We reported the matter to the police immediately and someone did come out to take a statement but to date, we are still waiting for someone to come and investigate. "The tracks could probably have been followed.”On 30 December 2008, De Beer said, he also came home to find six men loading furniture and kitchen equipment onto their bakkie.

When Sagrys demanded that the six thieves put back his possessions back, they rudely refused. He then blocked the exit road and called the police, saying he’d made a citizen’s arrest and would not let them leave his farm. “This time the police’s response was fantastic! I counted 17 police vehicles and the police helicopter was also in the air.”

Police let the attackers go: ‘it was all a misunderstanding…’

But after the police had spoken to the suspects, one of whom works on the farm, the police decided not to make any arrests because the suspects “had explained that it was a misunderstanding”. After arguing for some time with the police, De Beer says only the man who works for him was arrested. This in spite of one the released suspects threatening De Beer by saying ‘that they would be back’.

“I don’t understand how the police could use so much manpower and then not follow through.”On 1 January more sheep were stolen and on 5 January one of the houses on the farm was broken into and cell phones and tinned food was stolen. The police did not attend either of these crime scenes. Last Monday, De Beer’s children’s bicycles were stolen but the police did not bother to come out to the farm until De Beer eventually managed to get hold of an officer at 23:00. Diesel and batteries are also stolen from their trucks constantly and their dogs have also been poisoned, he says.“We tried contacting our sector manager but he was away on leave.

"We then contacted the head of crime prevention but he did not react to our complaint. We also contacted the police station commissioner but he indicated that he was on leave.” Polokwane police Insp Lesiba Ramoshaba, says the farmer ‘should report this matter in writing to the police station commissioner, only then will it will be thoroughly investigated. – journalist: Karen Venter http://www.informant.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1472&Itemid=65

A thus far unnamed 80-year-old farmer of Hazyview near the Kruger game reserve in South Africa was stoned to death by armed attackers on Sunday.He remains unnamed because the farmer 's wife then was raped by both killers. The killers had been there before: they attacked the farm two months ago and raped the wife during that occasion, too.Police constable Mpho Koli of the Hazeyview police said two men attacked the elderly couple at noon. Their farm is located near the Phabeni-entrance to the world-famous Kruger game reserve. "The men demanded money, but when they couldn't find any with the couple, they stoned the old man to death,' said the police constable.Koli said the bereaved widow recognised one of the attackers as the same person who had also raped her in November 2008. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2450513,00.html

Marietjie Louw Carstens reports in Beeld that 50-year-old farm stall owner Stephina Ledwaba, 50, of Rooipoort farm had her throat cut from ear to ear by a 30-year-old man who pretended to be her customer.Police have arrested the man after residents came across her bloodied corpse late Wednesday-afternoon next to the Rooipoort farm-stall outside Potgietersrus.The man fled with an unknown, small amount of cash. The unnamed man was arrested on the farm, where he was hiding in the bush.http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2450501,00.html

We did not include this killed farm attacker in our statistics.It was a violent death through self-defence, not murder, not culpible homicide. Beeld journalist Buks Viljoen writes that 44-year-old Afrikaner farmer Nico van Staden was saved by a farm attacker's rusty handgun - which failed to fire when the man tried to fire a third shot at him.Van Staden didn't hesitate: he had the chance to grab his own gun and shoot back, killing the unnamed attacker. The farmer and his children Nieke (9) and Rikus (15) were visiting with their neighbour Kobus Maré. They stopped at the farm gate at 8pm to open it, when Van Staden got attacked on the driver's side. The farmer slammed open his bakkie's door and hit the man standing there with the gun, and the two grappeled. Only then did he realise that one of his comrades was also attacking him from behind."This guy fired two shots at me. When he tried to pull the trigger a third time, the gun failed'.

And those few seconds were just enough to grab his own legal handgun from its hip holster and fire back.The man was hit in the chest and dropped down dead on the spot. Van Staden also fired towards the comrades but they ran off.The rusty handgun was dropped.Police traced it as one which had been 'stoilen from the police'. They believe it was this rusty because it was buried for a while.During the attack Mrs Martie van Staden, 43, was attending a funeral in Cape Town. She returned home yesterday morning.The children now are terrified of being on the farm, he said.They spent the night at the neighbour's house.Van Staden said he had attended self-defence courses by the Wonderfontein farmers' Union late last year with other area farmers.The union's Ernst van den Berg these 'had clearly helped'.Police superintendent Abie Khoabane said they also picked up the magazine of a second handgun, a 9mm, with seven bullets near the farm gate. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2450560,00.html

J an 8 2009 Beeld journalist Hilda Fourie reports that a 39-year-old secretary, Mrs Mathilda Barnard, 39, was found stabbed in bleeding in the veldt next to her field-bike near Pretoria yesterday.A biker came across the attacked woman, who was unconscious and bleeding badly.Mrs Barnard of Pierre van Ryneveld, is in the intensive-care unit of Unitas Hospital. She is the secetary of Pretoria attorney Koos van Rensburg - whose ballerina-daughter Estée van Rensburg, 19, was murdered in a gruesome murder attack at her parental home in Faerie Glen last year.Mrs Barnard had been training for the past few months in preparation for the Sani Two Sea biking marathon next month. Her future father-in-law John Williams (61) said he'd often gone with her on training runs.On Wednesday they were planning to ride with a Centurion mountain bike club from Doringkloof shopping centre, he said.He phoned her around 4:40pm, but her cellphone just kept ringing. However they thought that she probably was enroute and the bikers decided to take the route to meet her there.They first found her water-carrier on the path they were riding on.Her son Morne, 20, was riding ahead and came across her mother, blood-soaked and unconscious, next to a barbed wire fence and her bike.She had a stab wound to the left side of her neck and blood streamed from her right arm and leg.An elderly man was seated next to her who had apparently come across her and had already sent somebody to fetch help, waiting while it arrived, said Williams.Nothing of value is stolen except her cellphone. Williams says he's very, very angry. 'Why was all this violence necessary? Why stab her for just a cellphone?'Mrs Barnard and Grant Williams are planning to marry in August. She also has a daughter, Odette, 16.Lyttelton police station commander dir. André Wiese said they are 'investigating a robbery case'.He said nothing about investigating attempted murder.http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2450568,00.html

20081224 Three people murdered in farm attack, Stella, North West – dumped at pig sties…

Dec 26 2008 Beeld journalist Carla van Niekerk reported that three unnamed family members were murdered on Christmas Eve on a farm near Stella, in North West province. Police captain Adéle Myburgh says an armed attacker stabbed an unnamed 41-year-old man and two family members at around 8pm inside their homestead. The suspect then threw their bodies in a drainage ditch outside the pig sties.The murdered man's son came across his father's body at 7.30am on Christmas Day and contacted the police. The attacker has fled. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2445963,00.html

‘ALL WHITE DOGS WILL BE KILLED’, FREE STATE COPS PROMISE FARMER

Jan 8 2009. Tom de Wet Volksblad journalist Tom de Wet writes from Odendaalsrus in the Free State that elderly Afrikaner farmer Gert van Vuuren, 68, a former local police reservist for many years, was allegedly called a "white dog" by police officers, and told that "all white dogs in South Africa will be killed".

For several weeks now, Volksblad has reported complaints from the community about poor service delivery and alleged brutality by the police in Odendaalsrus.

Apparently the police even stood by, watching while a woman was cruelly assaulted by the father of her child, despite her having a domestic violence interdict from the law court against him. Rudi van Vuuren has visited the new station commissioner, Senior Superintendent M B Mbongo, to discuss what happened to his father, Gert van Vuuren, 68, on his farm on Saturday. He was advised to file a complaint against the police officers involved.

Police cursed him, called him a racist for no reason anyone could determine

Rudy said three police officers arrived on the farm Hilton in a police vehicle at about 14:00 on Saturday. They told his father they were there to bring the R100 which a former farm labourer owed him. One of policemen then asked why Gert 'would take money from a poor man', whereupon he answered that the man owed him the money. One of the constables then allegedly called Gert 'a racist' and also cursed his mother. Gert told them to leave the farm immediately, whereupon they allegedly pulled out their guns and called him a 'white dog'. They then left. When they returned later on, Rudi's mother telephoned her son. Upon his arrival on the farm, the policeman once again cursed his parents and his sister. The police tried to leave when he arrived, but Rudi van Vuuren blocked the road with his vehicle and took a pen and paper to get their names. They apparently refused to identify themselves at first, but after he told them that he used to be a major in the commandos and that he knew his rights and the law, one of the policemen identified himself. The driver of the vehicle, who was doing the cursing, also identified himself.

Rudy said he then tried unsuccessfully to call the police station in town and 10111 in order to file a complaint against the policemen and get them off the farm. While he was on the phone, one of the policemen allegedly told Rudy he 'could call Welkom, Bloemfontein and Pretoria; but no one would or could touch him.'

After Rudy had moved his vehicle and ordered the policemen to leave the farm, they refused to do so and said they were waiting for reinforcements. The reinforcements then arrived, in no less than eight police vehicles. When Rudy questioned this, he was told they had been called out to the farm. Apparently they were told a huge lie, namely that a farm worker was being assaulted by the farmers on the farm and that the policemen who had wanted to help the man had been attacked, cursed, threatened at gunpoint and that the dogs had been set loose on them. Rudy said he would like to know, among other things, why charges of defeating the ends of justice and crimen injuria were now being investigated against him and his father. He would also like to know what the police had to do with private matters such as the return of R100 and, to top it all, how they could use a police vehicle to do so while they were on duty. Provincial superintendent Sam Makhele said people should first take their complaints to the station commissioner - even if the station commander may have been involved -- whereupon the matter would be handled through the right channels. Police management understood the gravity of the allegations, but a complaint should be filed against those police officers who commit offences so that the offences could be investigated, he said. http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2450016,00.html

On Friday, 2 January 2009, detectives attached to the SAPS Howick in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, acting on very specific information, travelled to Sandton area in Gauteng and arrested three suspects in connection with the December 10 2008 farm attack at Freeland Farm, Dargle, KZN. Police believe this armed gang forms part of a large gang which travels all over South Africa specifically to attack white farmers. These alleged farm-attackers are arrested at a Sandton house and several robbed items recovered: four firearms, one a shotgun identified as looted from Freeland Farm during the robbery.

During the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 Dec 2008, Mrs Linzi-Anne Smith (62) was at home on the farm when three men armed with handguns, entered the home and confronted her. Shortly thereafter, her husband, Robert Smith (65) and two friends were also ambushed as they entered the house. The gunmen assaulted Linzi–Anne Smith with a firearm before tying up the victims’ hands and feet with cable ties.

The suspects then fled with a vehicle belonging to one of the friends, a gold coloured Toyota Corolla.

As usually happens during farm attacks, this vehicle also was found abandoned the same afternoon in the Nottingham Roadarea. Jewellery, cellphones and an undisclosed amount of cash were also taken by the suspects. The men are not yet named. They made their first remand appearance in the Howick Magistrates’ Court and were ordered into police custody for further investigation. Police senior superintendent Henry Budhram says thus far their investigations have established that the searrested men are part of a larger gang operating nationally. “The possibility of them wanted on other cases cannot be ruled out.”

Two of 12 gang members arrested for murder of dairy farmer Loffie van der Gryp

Dec 29 2008 KRUGERSDORP -- Beeld journalist Amanda Roestoff reports that two black men appeared in the Krugersdorp magistrate's court, arrested for the murder of local dairy farm-manager Loffie van der Gryp of Tarlton agricultural holdings, picture left. Dumisane Ncebesha (20) of Tarlton, and Karlito Makambu (26) of Mozambique were charged with murdering Van der Gryp, 48, manager of the large Sterkfontein dairies on October 28 2008 in his office. They were not asked to plead. Their case was remanded to January 6 2008. Nothing was stolen during the attack.

A gang of twelve black men had ambushed him while he was walking to the dairy farm’s office from his nearby rental home at night, tied him up and tortured him: bashing him over the head with large stones. They then split into groups, some attacking Van der Gryp's wife Linda, 46, sons Bennett (23), Roelof (21) and daughter Leandré (17), holding them at gunpoint inside their rental homestead next to the dairy. They then also attacked a local pastor, Boer Booysen, 65, of the Van der Gryp family's AGS (Afrikaans evangelical) church - whose house they were renting and who suspected that something was wrong and had gone to investigate. The gang engaged the pastor in a gun battle, shooting Booysen in the leg and shooting dead Van der Gryp, who was lying tied up and bleeding with head wounds. Magistrate Joachim Nortjé remanded the case to 6 January next year for the bail application - keeping them in police custody in the meantime. Makambu is a Mozambiquan citizen, Ncebesha is a farm worker on Tarlton smallholdings. It’s not known why the rest of the gang have not been caught. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2446910,00.html

PRETORIA. Dec 24 2008 -- A 16-year-old ‘boy’- part of a feral youth gang -- has been charged with the murder of an Afrikaner fam wife of Bronkhorstspruit who was shot dead while asleep in her bed, police said on Tuesday.

Director Sally de Beer said armed robbers shot and killed Laetitia Prinsloo, 54, and had shot her veterinarian husband Dr Duncan Prinsloo, 61, left, at the couple’s Vaalbank farmhouse east of Pretoria while they were asleep the early hours of November 20. Dr Prinsloo has just been discharged from hospital after a bullet was removed from his spine. He has made a miraculous recovery and is able to move about on crutches now. He told Beeld journalist Fanie van Rooyen that he’d wanted to be out of hospital before Christmas. The ‘youth’, part of a large armed gang of feral youths roaming the region, was arrested on Monday and Dr Prinsloo has made a positive identification that he had been among the three attackers who gunned down his wife. The ‘child’ would appear in the Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate's Court on Tuesday on charges of murder and attempted murder. "We are still investigating the case and expect to make more arrests. Combating house robberies is one of our top priorities and the South African Police Service is making every effort to identify and arrest the perpetrators of this barbaric crime trend," de Beer said. Dr Prinsloo said the worst day during his recovery was on December 14, when they would have celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary. “It grabbed me badly,’ he said. http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2445467,00.html

Two more farmers found murdered –

Dec 22 2008 - The mutilated body of South African game-farm owner's wife Sandy Gordon, 56, was found in their homestead near Blaauwbank in South Africa on Tuesday. The homestead is situated very close to South Africa's very first goldmine in a historic region north of the capital city of Pretoria. see This past year alone, at least 50 white homesteaders in this region in the Magalies mountains north of Pretoria have already been murdered in often sustained siege-like attacks by large groups of armed youths. And has also just become known, 65-year-old unmarriedVolksrust farmer Jan de Beer was also found murdered inside his homestead. His hands and feet had been trussed up together, and he was strangled slowly - with his own clothes.

Farm murders depopulate the countryside, cause famine:

These ongoing armed sieges targetting rural families are also depopulating the countryside of white food-producers.

The number of food-producing commercial farms in South Africa has dropped from 85,000 in 1994 to a mere 11,500 last year, according to SA tax records.

This has caused massive unemployment among farm-workers: 1,2million were employed on white-owned farms in 1994, less than 360,000 taxpaying workers now remain. Most SA farm workers live on cottages on the farms with their often very large, extended families. Thus the depopulation of white farms due to this ongoing violence is also causing another serious knock-on effect, with squatter towns growing larger every time jobless farm workers move away from desolate farms after such murders. Less than one percent of the entire South African land surface is now used for irrigated crop-production, causing local food prices to triple this past year. See CIA statistics:

Less than one percent of SA land-surface used for irrigated food-production…

Paradise for criminals:

The local agricultural community is shocked and dismayed, describing South Africa as 'a paradise for criminals'. This is not far from wrong: more than 50 people a day are murdered and another 40 people a day are killed in violence-driven crime. Edwin Rowles, chairman of the armed neighbourhood watch for the agricultural smallholdings in the region, said that they have lodged countless appeals with the police for better rural security. Their local police station has only two police officers on duty and often when farms are attacked, the police do not show up for hours.

Crime pays

"We've had four meetings with the police. Lovely promises were made, but nothing has come of it."

"Who says crime doesn't pay? It's the highest paying industry in our country. "If a criminal is caught, he is protected by the government, the state supplies a free lawyer or advocate that is paid with the taxpayer's money." The investigation in Sandy’s murder is undertaken by police inspector Emily Dipholo at telephone 27 11-278-8100.

According to the 2005 SA Tax records, there were only 13,500 taxpaying white farmers and 350,000 fulltime, taxpaying black/coloured farm-workers living on SA commercial farms that previous year.

Ten years earlier In 1994, there were 85,000 'white' commercial farmers with 1,2-m fulltime workers living on commercially-owned private farms - which in 1994 occupied less than 6% of the TOTAL SA land surface, according to the daily CIA satellite observations of the SA landscape. In 2008, the CIA observations noted that no more than 0.67% of the total land surface now is used for irrigated crop farming -- and that South Africa has over the past ten years, shifted from being a major food-exporter to a major food-importer, causing a negative currency-exchange rate. A full 94% of the total SA land surface has always been too infertile/too arid for commercial crop-farming. Expose: How the ruling ANC regime has social-engineered famine in South Africa

Since the last official SA government census in 2001, Solidarity trade union reports, there has been a massive exodus by 'whites' from all the traditional Afrikaner rural areas -- where food was being produced for the commercial markets while the farmers also were in a constant state of siege by armed militia-style gangs attacking primarily Afrikaner homesteads and killing their patriarchs. This year, two census surveys were carried out by experts from Solidarity trade union's Helping Hand charity to establish the extent of empoverishment among Afrikaners - and to locate these 'hidden, secret pockets of Afrikaner poverty' so that these people can be helped with upliftment programmes launched by the union.

Their two surveys both found that rural Afrikaners are fleeing enmasse from their besieged traditionally-Afrikaner countryside to urban areas: an average increase of 35% was recorded in the Afrikaner populations of the Western Cape and Gauteng provinces by Solidarity since the official SA government census was carried out in 2001- hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners were living in informal housing such as those pictured here. http://www.helpinghandfund.co.za

Pretoria North - the Afrikaner ghetto

These reports also note that such empoverished Afrikaners are being actively denied government food-aid; denied government housing; pushed out of their traditional working-class suburbs; refused jobs because they are 'too white' -- and often also turned away from public hospitals because they are 'members of the previously privileged class'.

The violence targetting Afrikaners in the countryside but also in traditional Afrikaner suburbs forces them from their subsistence-smallholdings - especially from the greater Pretoria area smallholdings and around Brits, Magalies, Krugersdorp, Roodepoort, Randburg, Northcliff, Honeydew and the entire East Rand mining areas where many working-class Afrikaner suburbs are located.

These besieged families - denied all access to the SA job market because of anti-white hiring laws - now are increasingly forced to move to extremely marginal land to survive. The Pretoria North working-class Afrikaner suburb is now so massively overcrowded with empoverished backyard squatters, many feeble elderly and often very frail, malnourished children who can only afford one meal a week -- that it is being referred to as the "Afrikaner ghetto'...

it was recorded by the census-taker and investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter that these often very pretty, blonde-haired blue-eyed Afrikaner girls and boys were also kidnapped in the greater Port Elizabeth/East London and greater Johannesburg areas and used in sexual-slavery brothels run by international Nigerian syndicates, where these Afrikaner children become drug-addicts and drug-carriers. Whereas in 1994 poverty and homelessness among Afrikaners was less than 2% of their population group, six years later, the 2001 SA census already recorded that Afrikaner families were living in 161,000 'informal structures' by that year - and the Solidarity Trade union census found that the number of impoverished Afrikaner families had more than doubled since 2001 with one-third of the Afrikaner nation now having no income, no food-aid and denied public housing, were forced to live in 'informal structures...'

reports on census of white poverty in five SA provinces - a census done by investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter

19860703 Afrikaner family farm massacre: police video

The link below gives access to a police forensic video of a typical 'farm attack murder' incident in South Africa.This video was filmed by the police forensic experts on3 July 1986. The family's names are not known.

The six black perpetrators who carried out these clearly racist murders were chased down by rural commandos and gunned down in a firefight within a week.

These rural self-defence commandos with their expert San field-trackers have since then been unilaterally scrapped by black SA president Thabo Mbeki.

Since this horror-massacre of this helpless Afrikaner farm family (the boy is pictured here) -- more than 2,990 white rural residents, mostly farmers, their family members and/or workers, have been murdered in a very similar way.

The four victims shown on this gruesome video - with the commentary by the clearly upset forensic examiners in Afrikaans -- were a four-member Afrikaner-family - the mom and two high-school-aged children, a boy and a girl, were choked to death with ropes before they were hung up, the children still in their school-uniforms - the mother and daughter strung up together.

The father was attacked at the backdoor of the farm and put up a fight before he was slashed to death. It apparently occurred at around 8pm that day.

There was no sign at all -- as can be seen on this video -- that anything valuable had been stolen. The motive, police determined, was pure hatred by the black killers against his white farm family in South Africa.

The mother, who ran a cosmetics business on her farm, still was wearing her jewellery. This video provides the police-forensic examination's explanation in Afrikaans:

'The man 's body was covered up with a car-tyre and a quilt. The man's wounds show that he put up a fight against the attacker's knife- or panga he was being stabbed with.

'The maid Sophie Malinga said she was tied up in the maid's room while the family was being murdered.'

VIEW - BUT WE WARN AGAIN, THIS IS A VERY GRUESOME VIDEO and SHOULD NEVER BE VIEWED BY CHILDREN - ever!

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '